Clothes-pin.



B. ALTMAN & B. A. KOSMAN.

' CLOTHES Pm. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4, 1911.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

BERNARD ALTMAN AND BESSIE A. KosmAn, or LAURIUM, MICHIGAN.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Application filed December 4, 1911. Serial No. 663,799.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BERNARD ALTMAN and BESSIE A. KosMAN, citizens of the United 'States, residing at Laurium, in the county of Houghton and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to clothes pins and particularly to the class of wire clothes pins.

The object of our invention is to provide a clothes pin that will be of sufficient resiliency to secure clothing on a line and pre vent the same from being accidentally blown oifby the wind.

Furthermore the object of our invention is.

to produce a wire clothes pin having a wooden handhold or head, and to secure the wire in the head in a manner that will prevent the wire from turning or becoming twisted therein.

Furthermore, the object of our invention is to provide means for securing the wire in the wooden head so that it cannot be withdrawn and to provide the head with a ferrule to prevent splitting when the le s are forced over the clothing and liner e also provide a construction for the ends of the legs whereby the danger of tearing the clothing is minimized.

Finally the object of our invention is to provide a clothes pin that will not rust by coming in contact with wet or damp clothing.

With the above and other objects in view, our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification and which will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings the reference characters denote corresponding parts in the several views and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, Fig, 2 is a sectional view on the line XX of Fig. 1, and, Fig. 3 is a sectional view.

The head 1 is made of wood and provided with an internal elongated shaped aperture extending its entire length and of suflicient width to permit the wire legs 33 com rising a single piece of wire bent upon itse f in a suitable form to be inserted therein and to lie parallel with each other, the entire length of the handle. The looped end of the wire legs extends a short distance through the head to permit theends to be bent over as we have shown at 4. The bent endslie in a cut out portion in the top of the handle or head and make a flush surface with the top surface of theha-ndle. 1

We construct the legs with strai ht por tions which lie parallel within file oval groove in the handle and below the handle i we slightly .bend them as shown at 5 whereby theymay extend over and partly around the line. -We provide the ends with a rounded or looped portion 6, which is adapted to turn out from the. material supported on the line and whereby the danger of injuring or tearing the material is avoided. The legs we have shown in the preferred form as being united at the upper ends which admits of their easy insertion into the handle and at the bottom of the'handle we secure over the end a ferrule 7, which prevents the head from splitting and adds strength to the pin.

It is believed that from the foregoing description the construction, arrangements and advantages of our invention are fully disclosed.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In-a clothes pin, a wooden head piece provided with a central roove elongated in cross section and exten ing the entire length of said woodenhead piece, said wooden head piece having a cut out portion inits top surface, a wire bent upon itself to form legs lying parallel within said elongated groove and having its end portion bent at an angle and lying in the cut out portion in the top surface of the wooden head piece, said legs terminating in outwardly bent portions adapted to encircle a clothes line, said outwardly bent portions having looped ends extending outwardly from the line as and for 

